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Actress Felicity Huffman is among 13 parents charged in the college admissions scandal who have agreed to plead guilty to using bribery and other forms of fraud to get their kids into elite colleges and universities, federal authorities announced Monday.

Actress Lori Loughlin and her fashion designer husband, Mossimo Giannulli, who also were among a total of nearly three dozen parents charged in the admissions scheme, were not on the list of those who have negotiated plea agreements with federal prosecutors in the U.S. Attorney's Office in Boston, which is overseeing the investigation.

The list also did not include Dr. Homayoun Zadeh, the USC associate professor and researcher with a Ventura dental practice. Zadeh, of Calabasas, is accused in a federal complaint of making bribes in a plan to gain USC admission for his daughter. The complaint charges him with conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud.

The parents were among a total of 50 people arrested last month and charged with conspiring with William “Rick” Singer, 58, of Newport Beach, Calif., and others, to bribe college officials and coaches and pay test monitors to falsely inflate their children's college entrance exam scores to secure their admission as purported athletes.

Felicity Huffman leaves the John J Moakley Federal Court House after facing charges in a nationwide college admissions cheating scheme in Boston.(Photo: KATHERINE TAYLOR, EPA-EFE)

Several parents and other participants in the wide-ranging alleged scheme have already pleaded guilty and are cooperating with authorities.

Huffman, Loughlin and Giannulli made their first appearances in federal court in Boston last week. All of the parents were charged with one count each of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud.

Felicity Huffman, 56, of Los Angeles, agreed to pay Singer at least $15,000 to participate in the college entrance exam cheating scheme for her oldest daughter, prosecutors said.